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But I have to say
that the respect for the language was a source of pleasure (compare
this
to Bakshi LotR which has some attractive animation in parts but is
too painful
to watch because of the contemptuous disrespect embodied in the
egregious
insufferable mispronunciations of names).
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Yes. I recently read (and subsequently misplaced) a webpage about all
the things Bakshi did wrongly, and it notes that Saruman was renamed
Aruman in the film, purportedly because it sounded too much like
Sauron.
I would probably have a chance of mishearing it on, say, a telephone
line but ... anyway, everyone tends to agree that it's a bit of a
travesty. Considering the large gap in which no more attempts to make
a movie have been made, I would say the Bakshi adaptation was more a
cautionary tale to other future directors :D
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